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Their hiatus on the whole greed thing appart, I think they meant the same as what you said? That there's no lessons to learn, because doing the same thing agai

Their hiatus on the whole greed thing appart, I think they meant the same as what you said? That there's no lessons to learn, because doing the same thing again wouldn't work. And if even the person who succeeded first hand would fail to reproduce their own success a second time, then those who are just reading about it have even less of a chance to be successful with that advice. I think that's interesting to explore. I do wonder if it's true or not. There does exist some serial entrepreneurs that did manage to bootstrap many successful business after all. Also I think the OP is more annoyed at the constant publication about "how I achieved financial success", because it kinds of gives out this illusion to others that they can as well, or that this is the ultimate achievement in life.

somsak2 3y ago
>"how I achieved financial success", because it kinds of gives out this illusion to others that they can as well Why do you think this is unachievable for others?
- didibus 3y ago
  I don't think it's unachievable by others, but it's probably not achievable exclusively from following a template or immitating a play book. This in turn means that articles, books, seminars that provide a template or a play book inadvertently pray on people desperately hoping to replicate financial success themselves. Also, I believe, mathematically, since money is a finite resource, having an outsize amount of it, compared to the average, implies that not everyone can be in that situation. Which would mean most people cannot achieve it. This assumes financial success is defined as having above average money.
kanbara 3y ago
funnily, the poster now works 4hrs/day and has a team, so they’ve become a capitalist in an extremely low cola country and can do whatever they want. not saying they dont want to hack still, but as they said, there’s no end to the limit, and ramen profitability wasnt enough
aunty_helen 3y ago
I appreciate your comment and understand your point of view. What people that want a guide to money (aka reading self help "how to make a million dollars in 100 days" books) don't understand is that the lessons aren't a formula. My feeling for the commenter I originally replied to is therein lies a source of misunderstanding and frustration. Being an entrepreneur is a skill. There are some very good serial entrepreneurs but they've all had 10x as many failures as their handful of successes. Reading someone else's story isn't to be taken as a lesson of what to do to get to any MRR. It's a series of data points to be mused over. Enough data points, along with time in the game (persistence, market viability, base level competence and work ethic) and you will start to have larger and larger successes.

somsak2 3y ago

>"how I achieved financial success", because it kinds of gives out this illusion to others that they can as well Why do you think this is unachievable for others?

didibus 3y ago
I don't think it's unachievable by others, but it's probably not achievable exclusively from following a template or immitating a play book. This in turn means that articles, books, seminars that provide a template or a play book inadvertently pray on people desperately hoping to replicate financial success themselves. Also, I believe, mathematically, since money is a finite resource, having an outsize amount of it, compared to the average, implies that not everyone can be in that situation. Which would mean most people cannot achieve it. This assumes financial success is defined as having above average money.

kanbara 3y ago

funnily, the poster now works 4hrs/day and has a team, so they’ve become a capitalist in an extremely low cola country and can do whatever they want. not saying they dont want to hack still, but as they said, there’s no end to the limit, and ramen profitability wasnt enough

aunty_helen 3y ago

I appreciate your comment and understand your point of view. What people that want a guide to money (aka reading self help "how to make a million dollars in 100 days" books) don't understand is that the lessons aren't a formula. My feeling for the commenter I originally replied to is therein lies a source of misunderstanding and frustration. Being an entrepreneur is a skill. There are some very good serial entrepreneurs but they've all had 10x as many failures as their handful of successes. Reading someone else's story isn't to be taken as a lesson of what to do to get to any MRR. It's a series of data points to be mused over. Enough data points, along with time in the game (persistence, market viability, base level competence and work ethic) and you will start to have larger and larger successes.